Comfort Items

What is your DD/DS's comfort item? A blankie or toy?

DD doesn't have a comfort item as yet, we don't have a dummy and she doesn't suck her thumb at all. She's 8 months old and the closest thing to a comfort item is when she's on the floor she likes to have her 'man' which is just a person that came with her Lamaze play mat/gym. It did have a female person, but DD doesn't like that as much.

When she see's her 'man' she laughs and holds him. It's her favourite toy.

My brother's comfort item when he was little was a little Ernie toy, then he had a little fireman.

From DS1 1st birthday he had a seahorse that you pressed tummy and it light up and play calming soft music he now has another 1 as it started falling apart LOL he still at 3 has it everynight without fail, he also lately has started sleeping with a soft Nemo and a copy of his birthday invite for his "buzz party" LOL very funny when we go to put him to bed and he expects all of these with him.

DS2 has not attached to anything apart from me!!!

Only now, at two and a half, has DD fallen in love with three toys she can't live without. One is a plush Jemima from Play School (we've already replaced her - first one was lost on a camping trip). Two is a floppy bunny, that she MUST sleep with. And three is the purple bug from Bug's Life, that has to go in the car with her.

I have tried and tried to give my kids a comfort item, and at 5 and 2 1/2 I still haven't succeeded. Some kids just don't ever I guess. Saves me having to desperatley find lost things or replace them when they fall apart :dunno:

I was my DD's comfort item until about 4 1/2. Now she doesn't really have a specific item, although she will take an assortment of dolls, soft toys and books to bed. Books are her mainstay.

When my DD was born, XP slipped out and bought the most fluoro OMG PINK teddy bear he could find. I swear I needed sunglasses to look at it :)

DD latched onto Pink Ted when she was about 11 months old, and hasn't let go - he's still her favourite comfort if she's feeling upset or a little sick, she'll curl up in bed with him, or when she's travelling he stops her feeling homesick. She's 9 now, so he's faded a fair bit and been repaired more than a few times, but still going strong.

I was only thinking about this the other day!

DS comfort item used to be my boobs :P, but since my milk dried up he has become very attached to his drink bottle. He takes that to bed with him (it only has water in it, and he just cuddles it to sleep, no sucking etc...) and any random teddy that is closest on his way to his room. Lately he's been swapping between a little dinosour my SIL bought him from a museum in Perth and a Flatout beer which is the cutest, it's made out of super soft sheep skin and he loves rubbing it against his face or he stacks it up on his pillow and sleeps ontop of it <3

DD1 is 5 in just under 2 weeks and stilll sleeps with her sheepie. He was bought for her by my best friend when she was born. i had it on her special things shelf because it was a beautiful creamy coloured fluffy lamb that played music when you wound it up. she climbed that shelf when she was about 10 months old and claimed it. Its now a grey, stinky non music playing floppy sheep, but she loves him.
DD2 has puppy, i bought puppy for myself when i was in hospital in the lead up to birthing her, but she's claimed it and sleeps with it every night and every nap without fail.
When they stay over somewhere we have to put sheep and puppy in their bags first so they dont get left behind, i hate to imagine trying to put them to bed without their toys!

I think DD's must be me/milkies (breastfeeds) because she doesn't seem to have anything else and that is how she falls asleep (now 2.5). Have occasionally tried to warm her to certain things but it never seems to work so we will see!

DS - has DH's 33 year old rabbit, its arms and ears have been sewn back on but its hanging in there lol. DS only uses it sometimes, he can cope if he doesn't have it.

DD1 - has a little blankie with a rabbit head and a dummy. she has to have them to go to sleep or sick ect otherwise its the end of the world.

DD2 - doesn't use anything yet.

DD hasn't got one particular item, but cycles through different teddies at night, although more often than not, she doesn't want one. I try to encourage her to choose one to take for childcare.
DS has a blankie teddy that I bought in the UK when I was pg with DD, she never took to it but DS got a real liking for it about the 12mth mark. He doesn't like the blankie teddy from Big W, so I'm a bit worried about how I can replace it if we need to. He's not a morning person, so blankie is hung onto for dear life for the first 30 minutes of being awake. He cuddles him whilst eating brekkie and so it gets yukky very quickly! But I don't get much chance to wash him because he screams bloody murder if you try to put him to sleep without it (forgot to take it to Nanna's one night, never again :lol: )

Miss 3 has an army of toys that she HAS to sleep with. The two biggest ones she hauls into the car when we go on long trips.

Mr 1 is supposed to have some toys but Miss 3 has stolen them all. We're currently working on convincing her that the new toy we just bought him is actually his. He thinks it is great, but he's so used to having everything he plays with snatched away that is is an effort to get him to keep this one.